The Alex Rider Timeline in detail (spoilers for all nine books!)

[J2Rider]

John Rider, no more than 26, joins Special Operations.

Ash joins Special Operations.   

Alex born in East London, England.

Alex Rider has a Taurus sign for his birthday, possibly an April 20th birthday?
Wikipedia says birthday was Feb 13, 1987, but also says Jan 17. 

For date of Alex birthday:  USA version of  CROCODILE TEARS says Feb 13th.

Skeleton Key has a scene in which it seems to be summer early July and Alex says he?s 14 and three months).
This would indicate maybe April 7 or so is his birthday.

Alex is christened?

Ash joins Scorpia?

End of April. Alex?s parents are killed.  Alex is three months old. (MISSION FILES says John died in 1988)

A few months after the death of Alex?s parents, Ash leaves MI6 and goes to work for Australian SIS.

Alex is two when the Berlin Wall comes down. 1989.

Alex learned karate from when he was six years old (ARK ANGEL and elsewhere)

Jack comes to work for Ian. Alex is about 7 years old.  Jack meets Ash when Ash visits London for a few weeks. Ash stays at hotel.
Ash visits two or three times. Jack and Ash go out a couple of times.   

Age 7: Alex plays hide and seek with Jack at Christmas. 

Surfing years ago. A week spent in San Diego, CA with Ian.

Ian Rider had taken Alex climbing in Scotland, France and all over Europe.

Alex has been in Italy before (SCORPIA UK and US Scholastic versions).

Alex spent the best part of a year in Barcelona, Spain with his uncle.

Shortly after his tenth birthday, Alex spent time in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Here he learned pickpocketing.     

Age 10: Alex tried to boil an egg in a microwave.

Age 11: scuba diving in the Carribean with Ian Rider for a week.

Age 12: For Alex?s 12th birthday, Alex was given a Condor Junior Roadracer bike.

Alex has gone to Blackpool with Jack. She won a teddy bear. Could have been any age.

Age 12: ?About two years before Alex?s missions were recorded, Alex sorts out bully Michael Cook who used to beat up Tom Harris.?

When Alex was 13 he went scuba diving in Guadeloupe, The Caribbean with his uncle Ian Rider.

Alex has never been to Africa at the start of CROCODILE TEARS

[J2Rider]

NOTE:Walker Books version differences

SCORPIA RISING

p6-a bright February morning, Zeljan Kurst

p18-more Scorpia agents mentioned: Levi Kroll, Mikato-the Japanese policeman turned Yakuza gangster; Dr. Three

p,23-Razim born 45 years ago

p.25-1979 mentioned, Razim informs on his parents, they are killed; sister dragged into a van by four men

p.28-Razim turns 18, asked to join Mukhabarat and leaves university

p.29-2003-Iraq war

p.39-four months later---a bright afternoon in June.

p.41-more Scorpia agents?Seamus, an Irishman, a redhead, ex IRA. Twin brothers from the Italian mafia?Giovanni and Eduardo (in 25 years they had never spent a minute apart).

p.43-The Chinese Dr. Three described. He wrote a book on torture.

Also three operations mentioned that were not given to Scorpia: nuclear material for Iran; terrorist activity in Tel Aviv and the collapse of the banking system in Singapore.

p.46-Mikato described. Tattooed the name of every man he killed on his body. Diamond set in his front tooth.

p,47-Frenchman Duval is one of the 12 on the executive committee.

p50-Australian Brendan Chase, former paymaster for the ASIS.

p.57-death of Levi Kroll

p.59-plans for Julius Grief to be with them in one week

p.64-prisoners are two secret agents, a weapons inspector who claimed to be innocent, a freelance assassin, two terrorists who planned a nuclear strike on London, and Julius Grief.

p.65-Julius one of 16 clones.

p.66-Other clones named Napoleon, Genghis, Mao Tse, and Adolph (the 16th one)     

p.67-Julius had spent two months in hospital

p.68-Rosemary Flint has been counseling Julius twice a week for the past six months

p.71-Julius believes it was a year ago he almost killed Alex on the roof of the school, Julius day one

p. 71-72-Julius day two: the Julius escape,

p.80-as far as Dr. Flint knew two of the clones had died, the rest are in institutions like the one in Gibraltar

p.95-Alan has been at his office for 17 years.

p.96-Blunt is 58

p.97-Alan recalls other agents who often, did not return: Danvers, Wilson, Rigby, Mortimer, Singh (who had his cover blown in Afghanistan).

p.98-It has been 48 hours since Kroll?s body turned up.

p.101-the dates on Kroll?s phone about something happening three weeks ago refer to either June or July.

p.102-Samantha Redwing, 27, has a social life, a boyfriend,

p.105-Two months ago (in March on the  4th) the former head of security of Cairo International College of Arts and Education,  Mohammed Shafik was killed by a hit and run.


ALEX day 1-June? Early June?

A Friday and a school day?. (Walker Books calls it a Thursday!)

p.116-Four months had passed.

(Walker Books says five months have passed!)

Second half of the spring term and the first five weeks of summer. Alex is now 5?10.

(Walker Books says the second half of the spring turn and two thirds of the summer?)

p.117-Physics teacher Mrs. Morant told Alex he had a natural talent. Alex was capt of the first team at soccer. He was in drama playing Teen Angel in Grease, summer production. Alex seemed to  be home less and less, hanging out more with Tom Harris and James Hale. He played soccer on the weekends and joined a rowing club near Hammersmith. He was in the 15 to 21 group. He rowed often on Sat afternoons down Putney and Richmond and (Walker Books also says Twickenham) onto Hampton Court. Rowan Gently was the cox, his own age. She was interested in him.

p.118-Alex seeing Sabina on facebook.  Alex stayed with Sabina for ten days during the Easter holiday. They explored San Francisco-the Golden Gate Bridge, Fisherman?s Wharf, Alcatraz Prison, Big Sur where they spent the weekend camping and hiking in California?s countryside. Edward Pleasure rented a house in Pacific Heights. Sabina plans to go to Yellowstone or La with Alex in summer. The McCain stuff happened at the start of the year. (Walker Books calls it Presidio Heights)

p121-Tom?s brother Jerry is visiting. Tom?s father had walked out.

p122-Alex?s bike is now the Raleigh Pioneer 160.  It replaced his old Condor Roadracer.

p.123-It was a beautiful spring day. Jack?s parents are in their 60s. Jack?s father had a stroke at the start of spring. Jack has an older sister who lives in Florida and has three young children of her own. Jack has been in England for nearly ten years. Jack is almost 30.

p.125-Ian had been in car crash in Geneva, mugged in Rome, broken his arm in Vancouver.

Jack was going to leave Ian two weeks before Ian left on the mission that had killed him.

p.126-Jack last saw Mrs. Jones at St Dominic?s Hospital in north London a few days before Alex?s 15th birthday.
p.127-Jack recalls last spring that Alex stayed two weeks with Sabina.

Grant Donovan, Alex?s math teacher.

Sniper attack

p.153-Jack mentions that a journalist was after Alex in November. (Walker Books says January)

Alan and Jones visit Alex at home.

p.159-Last week the Cairo school appointed Gunter as head of security.

p.163-Gerrard UK agent mentioned.

p.164-Alex?s home was bugged; neighbors of the house opposite were taken ill in Thailand and now in hospital in Bangkok.


ALEX day 2?  Saturday?       
Alex arrives in Cairo, meets Blakeway; meets Craig Daniels, Simon Shaw, Jodie; Alias is Alex Tanner. (Walker Books alias is Alex Brenner). 

Day 3-Sunday-meeting Smithers
Day 4-Monday-start of college??? 
Or ?
Day5
Day 6
Day 7
Day8
Day9
Day10-Meeting Smithers??
Day 11-Start of college?

p. 172-?over the next few days.?

 
p,172-Alex would start school on Monday. He and Jack visit pyramids at Giza, sail along the Nile, go through the souk, pop into Mosques and Museums, visited where Moses was found. 

NOTE: So either Jack and Alex arrive in Cairo and do ALL that in the span of TWO DAYS or less, or a full  goes by until he starts the college and meets Smithers on Sunday night.

Day 5 or day 12-Alex?s second day of college

p.181-Alex meets Gabriella, age 16, daughter of Italian ambassador

p.182-Andre Macdonald

p.186-Alex sees a boy, he is not aware at the time but it is Julius Grief.

Alex gets messages from Tom, Sabina and Julius among 18 messages, nearly all from his friends at Brookland.

p.189-?over the next two weeks?


Day 19 or Day 26
p.190-?at the end of the first two weeks, he was called into Monty Jordan?s office??

Walker Books says early in the second week?



p.191-and ?so he played soccer, talked politics, and even got a small part in the Cairo College production of Blood Brothers?

p.193-On Friday afternoon at the end of his second week?

Day 22 or Day 29
Erik Gunter away the whole of Monday.

Day 23 or Day 30
Alex had to wait until the end of Tuesday. Alex gets into Gunter?s office and overhears Gunter?s conversation.

Day 24 or Day 31
Wednesday: Graham Barnes, blue eyes, spiky hair, pockmarked cheeks, recognizes Alex from Brookland, he got sent here last year.

The House of Gold, death of Habib, sinking of House of Gold, Alex meets Blake Lewinsky and Franklin, waterboarded, Joe Byrne stops that.

Joe mentions 9/11.

p.235-Joe mentions the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and a secret deal with Libya.

Joe says he has been here for two weeks now.

Alex and Jack plan to go home; Julius practices on Alex target; He and Razim plan to kill Smithers tomorrow.


Day 25 or Day 32
Jack kidnapped; Smithers? house attacked; Smithers reveals his fat suit; Alex left alone; Alex finds note; Alex goes to Julius and Gunter; Alex taken to desert base of Razim.

Day 26 or Day 33
Alex in the cell, sees a baby scorpion as the sun rises. Jack and Alex have breakfast with Razim. Alex and Jack spend the day together; Alex is tortured as Jack escapes and is killed by bomb in SUV.

Day 27 or Day 34
Gunter is surprised by the change in Alex who had been captured 48 hours before. At the van at the speech at the university. Death of Gunter. Sniper attack foiled by Alex; gunfight, rainstorm, death of Julius.

Alex returns to Razim?s fort and disables the defenses. The attack on Razim starts. Blake dies. Razim dies.


Two weeks go by? A few weeks go by?

Day? 41 or Day 48

p.393-Alan thinks the summer will be hot. He saw Smithers a ?few weeks ago? when Smithers returned from Cairo.               

In two weeks Alan will be leaving on a six week tour of Europe. His wife was going with him, it will be the longest time they spent together since they were married. The tour will start in Venice.

p.395-Jones says Stormbreaker was over a year ago.

p400-Edward arrived two days ago. Alex stayed in a hospital/rest home in fifty acres of parkland. Alex and Edward leave.

[Samus]

Nice thread

[TiggsRulz:)]

Wow, you must have put a lot of effort into this, it's so detailed and long that you are either really good at remembering the smallest of details, or you spend hours and hours going over the books again!!

[J2Rider]

Thanks. I did spend a lot of time going through the novels and the different versions. I'm sure there are other versions out there. BTW there are other versions of the DVD of the movie too for different countries, some of which have many more extras including more deleted scenes, music videos, and behind the scene footage! and two or three trailers!